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#44 Public Radio

Summer: Who was that? It sounded like a girl.Seth: Did it? Yeah. Well, sure. Because I’m listening to the radio. And This American Life is on. And so there’s a girl talking.Summer: Is that that show where those hipster know-it-alls talk about how fascinating ordinary people are? God.

Leave it to a show about stereotypical white people, to actually explain how real white people act. The quote above is from the television show “The O.C.” and the character of Summer is making reference to the Public Radio show “This American Life”. White people have an uncanny ability to make the ordinary exciting and there is no better forum than public radio to best showcase this.

White people love stations like NPR (which is equivalent to listening to cardboard), and they love shows like This American Life and Democracy Now. This confuses immigrants from the third world. The see the need for radio as a source for sports, top 40 radio and traffic reports but they don’t quite understand why people who can afford TVs and have access to Youtube, would spend hours listening to the opinions of overeducated arts majors.

To explain this love for Public Radio, one only needs to summarize several previous posts on this website. Let’s use my friend Craig as an example. Craig has a high paying 9 to 5 so he feels guilty about all the problems in the world. To make himself feel better he likes being socially aware of things Post #18. However he spends most of his time indulging in the arts and going out for dinner so he has little time to devote to this. He found solace in The Daily Show Post#35, however he decided that life would be better if he did not have a TV post #28. Craig found an adequate replacement in Public Radio.

Craig loves Public Radio because it gave him an opportunity to download podcasts on his ipod Post #40. More important, was the fact that the download was free, because Public Radio is non profit Post #12. After Craig listens to people like Amy Goodman and David Sedaris Post#25, he feels like he is an expert Post#20 on the issues that they talk about like polygamy in third world or how awesome it is to watch an old lady pick apples. He brings up these topics to his bosses when they are having dinner or playing golf and next thing you know, he’s landed that promotion. All white people’s opinions are developed from Public Radio. So if you want to sound smart in front of White People, just bring up a topic that was discussed on Public Radio

Now if you truly want to understand White People I recommend listening to Episode 328 of This American Life, entitled “What I Learned from Television”. The episode was recorded in front of a live audience, and what is important here is not the content of the episode but rather the reaction from the audience. Listen to times when they laugh and when there is applause. Confusing? Yes it is! But we’re all here to figure out White People and somehow Public Radio has the answer.

(editor’s note: middle portion of the episode where the gay guy who doesn’t own a TV, talks about his one week experiment in TV watching, is an example of what White people love listening to.)

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As a person of Teutonic descent, I find your characterizations insulting, derisive and generally poorly-mannered.
As a suggestion however, you may want to include eating at Tapas restaurants, playing Frisbee golf, waxing about the virtues of soccer (futbol), protesting Foie Gras and owning huge collections of jazz music.

I’d love to find out what broadcasting school teaches the painful over-pronunciation affect, misplaced emphasis on words in order to sound smart, and how to say literally and literature as “litrally” and “litrature.”

Hilarious and spot-on. But some food for thought…Democracy Now is just about the only news show that still covers post-Katrina reconstruction in NOLA, and I think it was the first national news show to have covered Jena 6. Can’t you make fun of something more deserving? There’s probably a million insipid NPR programs that do nothing but gratify white folk, all ripe for the mocking. Fresh Air, maybe?

Ha…awesome post, as always. It reminds me of one I read yesterday on Best Week Ever. Dan feels instantly old because he donated to NPR. The comments are hilarious and basically an extension of this post 🙂

Yes, that Ira guy deserves such an incredibly hard kick to the groin. So annoying and smug. Smugness is the worst when it’s (poorly) masked in that mix of complacency/bewilderment/innocence with which those pussy NPR commentators tinge their whispering. They and their right-wing blow-hard AM-radio counterparts are just two sides of the same coin — the worthless currency of the holier than thou.

College radio is silly, but not really worth picking on because it’s typically just dumb kids who think that putting a play list together with both Mozart and Metallica makes them clever and worldly-seeming.

“I’d love to find out what broadcasting school teaches the painful over-pronunciation affect, misplaced emphasis on words in order to sound smart, and how to say literally and literature as “litrally” and “litrature.””

Ira Glass has left the path of enlightment and become a walking talking progressive cliche. In the last year or two he has given the show over to that Jewish schlep (Johnathan Fuckuppenberg ? ) who has never succeeded at anything he has nebbishly dabbled in, way too many times. Dump every Johanathan story left in the pipe, and get to work! He’s not amusing, not enlightening, not interesting.

When Johnathan is not ruining the show, Ira is doing it personally. “Our next story about a lonely old man whose home is filled with buckets of crap, vomit and filth from the the crack-hos, pimps and drug addicts he now considers his friends.” WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPPOSED TO DO WITH THAT STORY, IRA?

Also, nothing is as painful as listening to an NPR personality interview a comedian. The performed laughter (because they have actually committed to not laughing until they’ve analysed humor a few more years) may be the least pleasant sound on earth.

To my eternal shame I must confess that in my much whiter youth I actually worked for KPFA Pacifica radio. It was so white that even the black people we let come in to do a show every so often were white.

Now I turn on NPR only when I feel like spending an hour shouting “You freakin’ idiot!” every three minutes. Better than going out for a walk in Seattle’s Capitol Hill.

I’m white and I LOOOVEE Democracy Now! I say things like “CNN is not the liberal media you fucking moron! Listen to Democracy Now and you’ll realize how much the corporate media LEAVES OUT!!” So, our fashion tastes are not aligned on this one. I’m lame

The comments here are all very funny, and no less smugly superior than any NPR listener or announcer. So why the hate?

Are you all tweaked because NPR has greatly increased its listener base over the past five years, while commercial radio has lost listeners in droves? Corporate radio shares are down over 50% in the past five years. Commercial radio’s response to having their asses handed to them by public radio is to gut more news departments and air staffs, cut back play lists, play more commercials and continue the outdated model of talking DOWN to its listeners, promising more music variety and less talk, and then utterly failing to deliver.

I’m sure most commentators here would be quick to defend their favorite mindless pop culture radio station. Do you actually like canned DJ’s, morning show stunt-boys, seventeen minutes of commercials an hour and the same freakin’ Matchbox 20 songs over and over?

If so, you can have it.

Radio has always been more than sports, top 40 and traffic reports, in the same way the internet is more than YouTube, Drudge and Fark.

I’m thinking most of the commentators here are of the same crowd that likes reality TV, hip-hop fashion, Maxim magazine and their cherished bong.

Have at it. I want more. (Oh, damn. there I am being smugly superior!)

Ira dosen’t have to do a show about this blog. His show has done a great job documenting what white people like for the past 12 years.

Now I know what white people don’t like on NPR. Tavis Smiley. I’ve heard stories that when he used to have his daily show, member stations would gets complaints from listeners who said he “Didn’t sound like NPR!”. Go figure.

This is hilarious, but the statement “This confuses immigrants from the third world” is demonstrably untrue if you have ever been in a taxi driven by a Pakistani, Ethiopian, or Liberian driver (and who hasn’t, except those who haven’t taken a taxi outside of Fargo.) NPR is the radio drug of choice for most third world taxi drivers.

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White people may be white, but there are some very different flavors. There are those who listen to NPR…and then there are those who listen To Rush Limbaugh. I wonder what our esteemed blog host has to say about that? …Never mind, that would likely drag this whole blog into a different and ugly direction which so far and despite its subject, this blog has thankfully managed to avoid.

Say what you will about NPR, dude, but Democracy Now! is the shit. Just because Amy Goodman as hipster cred doesn’t mean that she isn’t a kickass journalist.

Still – see above posts re: Prairie Home Companion, This American Life, etc. I actually remember a time in the ’90s when Garrison Keillor could actually run a show with decent skits and good (white) music and interesting guests. Now he just sounds like a self-indulgent old man.

There is one distinctly “non-white” show on NPR Car Talk, but on second thought it is.

One night listening to a NPR show on the NPR Show Car Talk the number of people calling into express hate for Car Talk was amazing. People were offended Click & Clack did not take cars reverentially enough or “they are just a couple of cackling hyenas” that is Click and Clack have personalities and some pizazz whereas the rest of Public radio is usually flat tasting stale bread.

Someone just sent me a link to your site, which I hadn’t heard of before. Let’s see: you suggest that “All white people’s opinions are developed from Public Radio.” Gee, I’m not sure that’s entirely true. For instance, I’m as white as you can get (blue-blood WASP) and a lot of the posts on this site strike me as snarky, juvenile, excruciatingly obvious twaddle (from #73: “In general, white people love situations where they can’t lose.” Fascinating. Who doesn’t? Hutus, perhaps? The devoutly fair-minded Chinese? You think maybe those happy-go-lucky, much-beloved, never-had-it-so good Roms might go for a can’t-lose situation?), salted with a Godzilla-sized pinch of envy and written by self-regarding potshot-artists with far too little experience of non-mediated real-world life and a great deal too much time to spend on self-indulgence — and y’know, I developed that opinion not from NPR, to which I don’t listen (I’d rather read, pay attention to frames of reference other than my own, and try to make some sense of things all by my little lonesome), but by reading what I’ve found right here.

Of course, the distinct possibility exists that I’m taking this all too seriously, that this site is all just a kindly goof; but it might be a little easier to enjoy your joke if you’d shown up at the polls in ’00 and ’04 to help keep the Neocons out, instead of staying home and checking out behind “The O.C.” because “voting doesn’t matter” and “nothing ever changes.” If that were true, we’d still all have some money, gas would still be fairly cheap and our country would still be at (comparative) peace — all for the want of a few thousand more votes. Maybe this time you guys will pull your smirking heads out of your media-narcotized asses come November for the couple of minutes necessary to keep the antique, blinkered, corp-head Grand Old Party from perpetuating the cess of reeking merde in which our country is foundering.

Whew — it’s good to rant. Meanwhile, let me humbly submit the following perspective as words to live by, from James Baldwin: “All men are brothers. If you can’t start there, you never get anywhere.” Goes for sisters, too.

I am white and I love everything on NPR (except a prarie home companion). It is the fairest news source available and they actually report the news instead of talking about People Magazine fodder. In my opinion, it is the exact opposite of the “fair and balanced” fox news.

I gave up on commercial radio 15 years ago. I don’t listen to that crap, unless NPR is having a pledge drive.

I’m white too.. but not the yuppie kind like most people here..I’m a “blue collar” type, and I think TAL is the best thing on the radio ever! Why? It may sound like card board to most of you but to me it sounds like REAL people… like me….
oh, and don’t forget science friday!

I love your blog, I heard about it on NPR (where else?). My suggestion is to add Bob Marley. Most of the African-American people I know give me a weird look when I tell them I’m into Reggae… most of them listen to anything but Reggae. Bob Marley needs to be mentioned because:

1. He’s half white
2. He fathered several children with white women (Proof enough that white folks loved him)
3. He inspired Sting
4. He was a symbol for his poor oppressed country
5. Ganja- Weed- Herb- Marijuana

If PHC was any more laid back it would lapse into a coma. It sounds like the audience is rushing the stage whenever that dull man speaks. It gives the impression that Minnesotans are STARVED for entertainment.

I ONLY listen to public radio. That’s how I found out about this blog…ON NPR THIS MORNING!! Ha-ha! I love this site, I just e-mailed it to my other white friends- starting with the very white one who is so ‘culturally diverse’ as to be married to a non-white. (This will prove that I too see beyond skin color and make me look cool to other white people.)

OK, I love the satire in this entire stuffwhitepeoplelike blog, very well done!! But perhaps it is useful to re-name it and think of it this way –
for many of the items on this blog…

This is a FLAKE list!!!

i.e many of these are more culture than race dependant (though obviously white dominated). I’m a liberal white guy from the midwest who moved out west (so my threshhold for “flakiness” is probably pretty low compared to the liberal white guy from California or Oregon). So for (square, midwestern) me, I label many of these behaviors (organic foods, Yoga, NPR, etc…) as…. FLAKE!!!! I developed such a “flake” list a long time ago. Perhaps best described in this form –

YOU MIGHT BE A FLAKE IF…

-You do not own a TV (this was always at the TOP of my flake list, I view this as pretty extreme behavior)

-You won’t eat a cheeseburger

-You don’t watch NFL football. (baseball, basketball, or hockey may be freely substituted here, but NOT soccer. If you watch or participate in soccer – at least in the U.S. – you are a flake)

-You worship Macintosh computers

-You listen to NPR

-You look on in horror when someone throws a pepsi can into the regular trash

-You ride a bicycle to work

Anyway, this is most of my original list I made years ago, I did not necessarily attach race to it, but I understand the association. This now 76 item blog is brilliant!! Great work and great satire!! I can now add at least 20 more items to my “flake” list! (but your list is so much better). Of course the irony (I know, irony is on the list) is that this square from the midwest (me) has by now taken on more than a few of these behaviors…. and I heard about this blog on NPR.

Is it bad that I have a routine of going to the coffee shop every thursday and sitting with a cup of coffee while listening to the Sunday podcast of This American Life while doing the crossword puzzle in the City Paper?

Public radio is a snoozefest–that is why very few people, white or otherwise, listen to it. Most white people don’t even know that public radio exists, and most of those that do couldn’t tell you its local station number.

If there’s one value to this admittedly spot on post, on this somewhat brilliant blog, it’s in calling white folks out to examine for what they’re about.

On one hand, they should be called out, because, historically, as a privileged group, they have much to account for. On the other hand, it’s still a free country, and as individuals they have nothing to prove to anybody.

I as a black person who’s addicted to (and has frequently appeared on) public radio–the amazing and the stereotypically self-absorbed and trivial–I don’t know what I resent more: feeling I have to defend NPR, or the clear implication that I must be deracinated at best, a total Oreo-sellout at worst, for loving it in the first place.

This stuff is brilliant, but I’d be very careful about the mocking conflation white identity with the intellectual. It’s a close cousin of Hip-Hop’s anti-intellectual sins.

The truth is that, for all it’s flaws, there is more significant, enlightening and sometimes inspiring programming about the black experience, especially cultural, on public radio than most commercial television, especially including BET, and commercial radio combined.

The fact that proportionately more white folks are into it is more shame on us than them, I think.

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I think that this might be the common denominator of the “type” of white people discussed on this website. Would a Prius be tuned to anything BUT public radio? I doubt it. I’m sure that the music Whole Foods plays is right off an NPR playlist. Also, (white) people love to quote public radio. Saying that they heard something on NPR makes them think they sound smarter to their white friends. Of course, that’s NPR’s news.

The music however is a mix of awful folk music or classical. Who gets into someone’s zither playing? NPR listeners. They eat that folk stuff up with a spoon!

Of course, I found out about this site from an NPR report. Though I listen to NPR daily, I take the gloom-and-doom white guilt stuff (covered in the other things white people like) with a grain of (natural sea) salt.

i have never done this before, i dont read blogs or really understand how they work, please bear with me
i have been around and befriended many people in many places, both incredibly wealthy and completely impoverished, many black people many white people, indian people, african people native american people and many more. I have lived and worked with them and I have shared in both want and largess, it is my opinion that people make their lives what they are and that they can only make what they know. it is sad that certain ethnicities are worse off than others but this is transient. the generalizations that i hear everyone constantly yammering about in popular culture seem only to exist there. it seems we fear the change we need and would rather find new ways to seem clever describing the scent of manure than move beyond old stagnant modes of thought
my two cents
thanx for listening

This American Life – where every producer-director-intern has a fascinating story to tell about a wildly eccentric family member. It’s remarkable how such bedwetting liberal types – TAL, Prarie Home, etc, can produce such a lily-white program year after year. If I wanted to isolate myself from black people in America, I’d lock my radio receiver to NPR shows – it’s like the Aryan Nation mashed up with foreign movies.

Although this is another post for American white people, I think it is even truer in Canada. We love listening to and showing support for public radio (and television). We think we are superior to people listening/watching other channels. We feel a need to support CBC even though it is a huge, money-losing monopoly. There are some excellent shows though (with swearing and nudity)!

You say:
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NPR may be like “listening to cardboard”, but listening to 99% of the “morning zoo”-style hosts* is like listening to sandpaper, against a chalkboard!
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I am not in disagreement with this sentiment. I listen to a streaming radio station that talks about “waking up listening to DJs laughing at inane things.”. While this is a public radio station it carries very little NPR programming (some on SA with its broadcast of Live at the Met).

Some years ago SNL did some parodies of NPR show hosts & hostesses it was hilarious and spot on.

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Fortunately, I don’t listen to radio anymore and instead plug in my iPod (which is probably somewhere on this “Stuff White People Like” list). I mean, from the comments it looks like the only options on radio are shock jocks and boring NPR Talk, so I am almost 100% sure I’m not missing out on anything.

It may be significant to note that radio personalities tend to be too ugly to be television hosts. White people like radio hosts and subject matter, but if there’s one thing white people DON’T like, it’s ugly people. Radio is one work around to such a conundrum.

just listened to you on talk of the nation and thought it was hilarious that the listeners were so taken by how white they were… guys guys… exactly! oh the irony..!!hahaha it’s gonna be one those things i smile at for years

i’ve had many debates with my whitie friends over NPR’s stilted ass tone whenever they cover an inner city story. it’s like the audio tour of a zoo, “here are Miguel and Jamal in their natural habitat, the ‘bar-ee-o.’ their gaits and verbiage hip, and, current.”

This episode of ‘This American Life’ was a fantastic and eye-opening choice. This (endearingly gay) guy in the first segment mentioned Television and Republicans in the same sentence in a mocking manner and had to stop his speech for a full 20 seconds of roaring applause from the audience.

I love NPR. It’s like a breath of fresh air compared to the right-wing crap talk shows that dominate radio in Houston.
Rush Limbaugh, Dan Patrick and their ilk make me want to throw up, so whenever I’m station-surfing, I get them out of my ears as quickly as possible so their hell-fire won’t come through my radio and melt my dashboard.

As a white liberal in a sea of conservatives, I’ll take NPR whenever I can get it.

“Democracy Now is just about the only news show that still covers post-Katrina reconstruction in NOLA, and I think it was the first national news show to have covered Jena 6. Can’t you make fun of something more deserving?””

How many white people do you really know that don’t have a TV? Some of these posts are spot on, but some are just ridiculous and probably based upon one really deranged white person who made you feel inferior, and so you’ve projected their idiosyncracy onto all white people. Also, i dont know many white people who listen to public radio. We need more respect than that. We’re too busy listening to Adam’s Family Whoomp, and Various Native Tongue groups. Holla.

The corollary to loving NPR is loving the BBC! White People love to hear that extra syllable inserted into the word Aluminum, and how Robert Mugabe isn’t really responsible for the collapse of Zimbabwe.

Our NPR outlet, WUNC turns the satellite switch to the Anglostream nightly. This usually happens only after exhausting their supply of tediously arcane, locally-produced programming.

But I’m a proud listener of NPR. I especially like their pledge drives, when they *plead* with me to contribute my “fair share.” I chuckle, and crank the volume, hoping to sop up more of their signal, all without contributing a single penny.

I’ll tell you why I love PHC – Because it is admittedly, unapologetically WHITE. No more, no less. And that is a brave stance in a hyper diversity-obsessed media world. Be what you are and love it! And let others be what they are and love them too.

I love NPR – but not our local station, because they stopped playing PHC.

So, now I love our college radio because they do play PHC.

This white girl loves PHC because she loves nostalgia (as, I suspect, most white people do). I’ve listened to the show for 25 years (since I was 13), and I can’t imagine a Saturday night without Garrison and a martini.

Still alarmed by the generalizing. Not so much the blogger, more so the morons who this does apply to, imagining that all white people are like them. Ask a republican whitey if he or she loves NPR. You may find a majority will find it deplorable. You obviously observe the elite liberal and pretentious white people of America.

Some of us African Americans listen to NPR, too. I’m streaming it right now. I’m a huge fan of Diane Rehm and Kojo Namdi; although, I must admit- The Writer’s Almanac portion is a little pretentious. lol

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You forgot about the ones who contribute to get their little NPR tote bag, that they can then use down at Whole Foods. Usually, this is done by the middle aged housewives, but it’s catching on with the younger set too.

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I don’t live in America, but I have been there for a week plus, twice.

Commercial radio is CRAP there just like it is is in Aussie. I personally DON’t like compressed sound, dickhead whacko jocks, and ads. Because I’m not a dickhead, OR perhaps ‘easily bored’, and don’t like being treated like one

Fortunately Aussie has it’s own publicly funded and quite popular national broadcaster. It even has a yoof cultcha station. FM and lotsa compression and EQ, but no ads, and funny and inetelligent pop cultchas types! I prefer the classical and Jazz network, and their station for people who can still think -> Radio National.

Somethings American seem to love, and uniquely so!

– News services (?) and newspapers with as little news as possible about anywhere else outside the USA. This really IS unique to your country, truly.

– telling the world about how THEY saved us from Hitler and Japan, or even the Kaiser. As if we hadn’t been involved. Do you get taught about other Allies efforts!?

For some reason my ex-boyfriend Miles adored NPR, and that irritating “Performance Today” program so I bought him a sweatshirt that says, “National Public Radio: Where Thousands Toil So Hundreds May Listen.” However, he never wore it . Can I sell it on e-Bay?

Your blog, while really clever, is mean.
You are continuing the comfortable anger and distance between people of color and people who are void of color.

Obama’s speech was fricking brilliant because he showed that the only way through racism is love.
Because he is part of two tribes, black and white, he has been loved and loves people of both colors. And he refused, out of love, to disown his pastor or his grandmother.

I am a white person who grew up in a black community. I love both worlds – I love these fragile white types and I love these fragile dark types. I also know that these types are individuals. And that most of them are doing the best they can.

It’s fun to make other people look foolish.

In the big picture, however, you are part of creating and sustaining a world filled with tribes that find their power by drawing lines that keep others out.

There is another way.

Love and compassion.

While humorous, I believe your blog is continuing the racist agenda. That agenda is what brought the slaves here, it’s what keeps the anger going, it is a very real and dark power that keeps the status quo.

You don’t need to do this.
Look in your heart.
What is your motivation?
Don’t take the path of ridiculing other human beings.

You are a very bright and creative person – use that for good. I’m telling you that what you are doing is using your talents and power to make the world a more divided place.
Is that what you want?

this is so stupid,
Complaining about listening to the news on the radio while you can watch it on TV, yet, you want to listen to Sports! WTF!!!! who wants to listen to a basketball game or a football game!!!!! how idiotic is that!!!!

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I agree. People should spend more time listening to corporate media rather than public media and should spend more time listening to FOX NEWS journalists who don’t have even have a degree in journalism. Hooray for US anti-intellectualism and making fun of white people who stand in solidarity with people of color.

The last NPR show I listened two was This American Life a couple weeks ago.

The theme was testosterone. They had a man who used to be a woman talk about how the hormone changed him. Boring stuff, eh? Well, I don’t meet transgendered people every day, so I enjoyed it.

Then the show’s staff (male and female) all had their testosterone levels tested, and even though on their worst days none of the men could be considered supermasculine, they each wanted to come out on top. It was funny.
In fact, the men you call “smug” were all very self-deprecating.

So while I’m listening to my “cardboard” you can all go see the next Will Ferrell/Owen Wilson/Tyler Perry movie, and we’ll meet up afterwards and see who has laughed the most–or cringed the least!

You have to admit — Tommy and Ray – Click and Clack the Car Guys are really the only people worth listening to on NPR. The rest is white nosie. You know you love them. Go on, download their podcasts ’cause you slept in on Saturday morning.

Great post spot on. NPR is for nerds. You know what else is for stupid snotty white people books, just a bunch of boring words that tell stories about stuff nobody cares about. Also, watching presidential debates. Hmmm… let’s se what else inteliigent conversation. White people love to sit around and talk about the complexities of pertinent issues goin on in the world and their personal lives, psh! stupid! dont these people have cable?

This web site is very lame and makes me sad. Public radio can be boring but it is also incredibly refreshing in contrast with all the mindless and corporate bs we have to deal with every freaking day. Ira Glass we love you.

Also public radio is all i listne to anymore for music. I dont even flip through the stations anymore because bearing just a note of a song by Gwen Stefani, the Goo goo dolls, or Matchbox twenty makes me want to drive my car into a lamp post.

You know what else whitepeoplelike?- that website stuffwhitepeoplelike.com.
I was at dinner with my white family, and we were talking about a story I heard on TAL-(thats This American Life for us in the know) anyway….that led right into a discussion about stuffwhitepeoplelike.com- and we were all like, “NPR is soooo liberal”
…and you’re right Mark- there is nothing more commie than Jazz, Bluegrass, PipeOrgan music Cars, Pets and gardening…..garden much comrade?

IT’S MY HUSBAND’S FAULT I LISTEN TO PUBLIC RADIO. I swear, I had never heard of it before I met him. Instead I spent my car time absorbing lyrics to songs I don’t like, but come on 30 minute rotation anyway, and wasting brain cells. Swear.

Just found out (from your blog) something else white people seem to like, saying “Spot On”, when they mean “bulls eye”. Makes us sound british, I guess. Sorta like the old movies about ancient Rome, where the Roman upper crust all spoke with british accents. BTW, WJCT Jacksonville (89.9) has virtually NO classical, jazz, or opera during times when we are usually awake!

White people may like NPR, but not this white boy. Dull beyond compare, is how I’d describe NPR. I am not a big fan of radio to begin with; but, listening to a bunch of whackos full of how smart they are and how dumb the rest of us are and how screwed up the world is because us dummies are swayed by the wealthy white folk is definitely not my cup of tea. Not that I drink tea either, but you get my point.
This whiteboy loves his iPod and his car’s aux input. Yep, that’s right, I drive down the street listening to, you guessed it, Judas Priest, Marylin Manson, and, oh yeah, Britney Spears. Once in a wile I throw in some Snoop or Wu Tang, just to throw people off. When I’m really feeling it, I jump over to some Beetles. Now that’s high living. Usually this doesn’t happen until I’ve chugged a few Lemonade Snapples and am on a total sugar rush. I roll down the street in my family truckster, aka Subaru Forrester, and bump Sgt. Pepper like it was 1979.
Woot! Woot!

I host a blues show on a local independent radio station. 90% of the artists I play are black, and dead. Of course, I’m white.
My station specializes in alternative rock. I play more music by black artists in my one hour per week show than is played the entire month by the rest of the station’s programs. And little I play has been recorded after 1975. It seems what I do is a very white thing. White people like old black music.
Anyway, it’s hard not being the white guy I am, and somebody’s got to play this stuff!

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Public radio’s an easy target, but it’s also a cop-out. The alternatives, after all, are Rush Limbaugh, Opie and Anthony and ten thousand local “Dude, Mook and the Carbuncle” morning zoo shows on radio stations that think garbage like Sum 41 is the height of great new music.

Dunno about you, but I sure know which radio choice is more worth my time and effort.

Hey! Leave NPR and This American Life alone! I love both the program and the station, and they actually provide REAL news, as opposed to CNN, FOX, etc. People work really hard to make those shows and to bring us news on an EXTREMELY tight budget, and making fun of them is just disrespectful.

NPR is f***ing awesome. Especially “Democracy Now.” I once listened to them do a whole hour on the “socially conscious” FARC. Yep, if your idea of social consciousness is marching innocent kidnap victims through the jungles of South America while raping and pillaging your way through the Rain Forest, then you’ve got a friend in NPR. Maybe they should call it “Democracy Later” since most of their top-down third world shit-hole movements aren’t interested in any form of republicanism or democracy. Well, maybe they are… in the same way the DPRK is a democracy.

So funny. So true. I didn’t even realize I was white until I read this one. Public radio and dogs are what really made me take a second look. I put my arm against the wall, which is white and realized…I love npr, my dog is right under my chair and…by golly I am a cracker!

You know what’s funny. Everyone loves to rag on “upper class” / rich people. But, everyone’s lookin to get rich. I guess we love to hate what we can’t have.
NPR is a bit snide and very Pc. But, it tries.
And, you know, every station has a vibe. If you put on an R&B station it’s like totally vibing on black power. And NPR has a seriously diverse group of reporters… check it out. It’s all good. Except the right wing fools who are purely sick. but we need them to remind us what not to do.

There’s no such thing as overeducated. That attitude is what keeps people down. Until all people are educated and can play the game of business, life etc, there will be economic enequality in the world. Don’t spread that vibe of hating “educated people”. If you came from a family that worked their fingers to the bone like my dad and mom so their kids could be educated you would not just toss education aside.
Try being uneducated. You’d be 16, pregnant, addicted to crack, unemployed and ignorant…and mayb eeven angry and abusive.

yes. All men are brothers. And sisters… right on. Yes. I agree.
I wouldn’t take anything people say on this blog seriously. If we were talking about any other group in America, this blog would be
labled “racist” and awful. But, hey, people love to take shots at people, especially whites (and women) and put them in groups. That’s the bad thing about America, everyone runs off their mouths with disrespect for others…and that’s where racism starts.
Although, I do love NPR. But, so do a lot of my friends who are not white.

Amy Goodman’s “democr4acy Now” is one of the most biased, stupid, show anywhere on radio or TV. Even jackasses like Rush and O’reilly are more credible
Mind you, Iam not a neo-con,and stupid, biased programs like Democracy Now i sthe reson why Bush got elected twice.

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ha.only messin. Point is this site shouldn’t offend anybody.Its a forum to debate things..a bit of a laugh. If it offends you perhaps it says more about your lack of a sense of humour and insecurities than it does about the site?!

NPR don’t need anyone to make fun of them as they are a self-parody even thought they are not aware of it.

Recently I was listening to one of their ordinary people snooze-fests about a mother with a teenager daughter who fornicates with her boyfriend in the house. The husband lays on the couch all day drinking prodigious (her word) amounts of beer. After listening to five-minutes of her grousing, it was clear that if I had someone like that moping around my house, I’d want a drink as well. NPR, it’s like a suicide-cult.

I actually enjoy NPR. However I used to listen to it on occasion like listening to classical music (also pompous). Since I have been dating my New England white woman for the past two years I have been hearing NPR every weekday morning for the past two years. Honestly I feel that the tone and pace are absolutely brain washing. I find my self just regurgitating anything and everything that is “cultured”.

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I’m 15 and my mom blasts NPR every. single. minute. On the upstairs AND downstairs radios. It started a month ago and I wake up it (NPR serves as her alarm and the noise penetrates my door), eat dinner to it, and fall asleep after hearing the radio click off in her room.

The worst part is in the morning – I think that little bit of music after “And now, it’s time for Garrison Keeler.” will be forever ingrained in my memory. You have no idea what it’s doing to me.

Please, nobody point out that I’m Hating my parents (#17)… I think I’m entitled to it in this case.

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I’m a Chicago-born Chinese college student and I know I’m becoming more white everyday; NPR is definitely one of the ways.
in the past few days, i’ve become more addicted to Wait Wait Don’t tell me, which is one of the funniest and educational shows I’ve ever heard/seen.

So I guess what white people (including me!) really like most is this website…because it lets us talk about ourselves. Because we, as white people, with all of our charming and quirky colonialist attitudes, are amazing!

On another note, to all you haters, stop trying to non-whitify yourselves by hating on public radio. Jesus. Ironic hatred of public radio is probably the whitest and most out-of-touch thing you could possibly do. It’s almost worse than genuine hatred of NPR. It makes you look like a fool. You are fools, haters.

I have to admit that listening to National Public Radio has helped me immensely. My physician at Martin Memorial took me off Ambien as it is not for long term use to treat chronic insomnia. He suggested I begin listening to NPR. It works like a charm! “Performance Today” and “From the Top” put me to sleep in less than 5 minutes every time. Thanks for changing my life, NPR!

TAL and Prairie Home are not produced by NPR. TAL is from Public Radio International and Prairie Home Companion is from American Public Media. However, these programs do air on NPR stations, so it’s confusing.

I’m pretty darn white (61 out of 101 on this list) but I can’t stand NPR for “litrally” the condescension and snottiness. I do love “Prarie Home Companion” though. They managed to recreate an old time radio show (from the time when people didn’t have TVs because they weren’t invented) about the whitest place on earth: Lake Woebegon MN.

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I’ll admit it, Public Radio is one of my major relationships. The only source of news that seems to trump this with other white people is referring to things read in the New Yorker, which more Californians subscribe to than actual New Yorkers!

“The see the need for radio as a source for sports, top 40 radio and traffic reports but they don’t quite understand why people who can afford TVs and have access to Youtube, would spend hours listening to the opinions of overeducated arts majors.”

I guess I’m a sorry excuse of a white person, because none of these would fall as anything I like, least of all Public Radio. It’s nothing but a far left propaganda outlet. When is the last time you heard them say anything good about a president that wasn’t a Democrat. When was the last time they presented anything of any accuracy regarding our military or what is going on in Iraq? Yea you can’t recall because it hasn’t happened. Like I said liberal left propaganda tool. Which makes one wonder who made this list. I’ll bet it was a liberal left activity trying to convince the ignorant uneducated, uninterested, lazy people of this country that their way is the right way, no pun intended.

Actually Doug, I think you’re doing just fine – criticizing the left wing of American politics is very much a white person activity. I think the difference is that this blog is focusing more on what is “cool” behavior for white people. Being Republican isn’t cool (just look at the nerds they round up to stand behind John McCain when he gives a speech). I think you might be reading too far into this blog if you’re trying to find a real political standpoint, especially considering this post is generally mocking the particular outlet you despise.

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NPR is horse shit. If I want political opinion, or to listen to ivory-tower idiot spewing idiocy, I can watch TV or buy a newspaer. We don’t need to spend public money for one end of the political spectrum to feed off of. It is long since time that this bunch of subsidy-addicted bozos had their needle taken away.

Damn! I must be White and not know it because I am addicted to NPR. Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me is my favorite show, but I must admit it does kind of torque me sometimes because every time somebody says that seems regular to me the NPR host is so SHOCKED! That especially happens with Terri Gross. Where did she grow up? Under a rock. I remember that Branford Marsalis was on the show and he told a story about his family growing up (something really ordinary like getting a whipping) Terri wanted to know how that affected all these years later. Hell, it affected him like it affected all of us, we knew not to do whatever it was again that got us whipped.

But as much as I love NPR I do have to say that you HAVE to be White to like Diane Rehm. She is the Whitest of the White.

For some reason White people LOVE paying too much for something really stupid. Like say, Carbon Taxes (or Fees). A White person will happily ante up another five to five hundred to be “carbon neutral” on his cross country trip on a wide body jet. The logic behind that is incredible. I give someone (not sure who) some money and they (plant a tree, use a flourescent lightbulb or buy a Rolls Royce) and it erases my “carbon footprint”. Now can you imagine trying to sell that idea in the Black community. I can hear it now, ‘Yes Mr. Washington for a mere one hundred dollars, we can erase the carbon footprint made by your Escalade EXT w/the 26’s. We’ll plant a tree in the South American rain forest.”

Mr. Washington, “I don’t give a dman about no rain forest. What I want is some 28’s and a Hummer.”

Never heard This American Life. I didn’t even know they still had radio shows. Ha. But it is kinda funny that they would listen to a radio but not own a tv…it’s different because you can’t see pictures?

cartalk is emanates from the absolute epicenter of white person guilt vortex-Boston!! and being viewed as Italian working class guys, they get a bye on the need for private schoolishness and elitism by being viewed as funny commentators on objects we have to all have. and, being an aging white guy, in the middle of other affluent aging white folks, my theory is cartalk is PERFECTLY suited to the desire to seem thrifty and conservation minded-by running the wheels off the volvo, honda, or random chevy that comes up-most of the guys I work with who listen in, and we all talk about it and laugh at the brother’s excellent banter, but we almost to a person never ever drive our aging cars more than 50 miles from home-we fly everywhere else. So, keeping an aging car-at least one-to drive when feeling guilty about the newer Lexus, BMW or Jag-is a fun thing and not much risk, as even if it does break down, you are usually a cell phone call from a 15 minute ride home. Now the joke is really old, but, back when Yugo tried to sell cars in the USA, for about 5 years after, every time someone asked what kind of used car to buy, the host would ask how much they had to spend-whatever they said, he divided the number by a thousand and told them to buy multiple Yugos and throw them away as they broke down-if they said 5,000 he told them get five Yugos!! If you were ever involved in a Yugo purchase, repair, or push to the curb session, you laughed even harder. Great white guy humor.

There IS a non-annoying way to listen to Public Radio; when they stop playing the classical and jazz music, TURN IT OFF. Also, strongly suggest to Amy Goodman that she go out and actually DO something to solve the problems of the world, like working in a soup kitchen, and stop haranguing everyone else about how morally inferior to her they are. Oh, and knock Ira Glass’ well, glasses, off. He might actually shut up for a moment.

I guess I should try tuning my radio to something more exciting…something that won’t put me to sleep…something with lousy music, loudmouthed hosts, sensational news, and annoying advertising! Or maybe I should just start watching cable news instead, so I can get caught up on “real” news about Paris Hilton and Friends.

The CBC had agreat show a couple of summers ago called something like “The Ulysses Project”. The host and a handful of listeners (all white, I’m sure) were attempting to actually get through Ulysses. For some it was the third or fourth attempt.

They’d check in once a week to update listeners on their progress and provide mutual support.

The point being, it’s one of those books that everyone should read because it’s good for them even though they don’t understand a word of it.

NPR has the lowest ratings, even though it is available on about 7 different frequencies in the greater NYC area (homeland of the ‘Know it all hipster’).

If “All white people’s opinions are developed from Public Radio.” as stated above, than there is like 2 dozen white people in all of NYC. We know there are no white people in L.A. or the south, or anywhere there is a farm, so who exactly is this aimed at?

I get it, it’s you!

The imaginary friend, the quotes from the “OC” to prove how un-intelligent and un-educated you are, the self loathing oozes from this post.

Pop on the z-100 and let your inner gay dance partner take the lead. Pompous is too much of a stretch for someone so depessed.

I totally agree with the assessment of NPR. I hate the way white people (I’m white myself, but I don’t do this) listen to NPR and think that they have made the world a better place just by the simple act of tuning in. Let’s be honest NPR does a poor of reporting. Their better than most broadcast news on television, but that is hardly something to hang one’s hat on. Did they point out the holes in the Bush lies the Iraq war or question the wisdom of Greenspan when the Maestro was inflating the housing bubble that is now bursting and taking the world economy with it? Nope. NPR’s strong suit is their focus on the trivial. The more cultured and little known the better. People pledge so that they can get material to dispense at social gatherings and make themselves seem witty. Sword violence upswings in Scotland is my favorite completely irrelevant NPR story. I will never get the three minutes that I wasted listening to that story back.

I would separate Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now from this critique though. It is the spawn of Pacifica, and maybe a bunch of pompous white people like it as well. But fundamentally it is a better show, a trail blazing journalistic enterprise at its best. It isn’t under written by Big Oil and Big Pharma and it shows.

I like public radio just because I like hearing people talk when I drive. It’s weird. I also listen to a lot of audiobooks, since I’m not one of those white people who appear to like classical music. It’s just not my thing.

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Oh yes indeed, NPR is the only radio station I bother with because the rest of them fucking suck. I can’t stand the endless commercials, the shitty music, the canned playlists.

But even I hate This American Life and the veneration of the trivial and ordinary is exactly why. I have the same problem with contemporary literary fiction; maybe you CAN make something boring sound interesting, but you’re just showing off.

Public radio provides news you won’t hear elsewhere. Hating public radio sounds like something FOX News would pull to garner viewers. Only it’s a shame that besides skewed reporting, they only report when hot white girls go missing, there’s some fire in some small town or the latest liberal outrage. Do you think anyone on FOX News reported about those terrorist attacks in Mumbai when they happened, what about Canada’s election in October? You could get some of the story from FOX/CNN or you could watch the news on a broadcast network or listen to NPR.

Oh I love that episode! The part when the guy with no TV says “I would drink Jon Stewart’s bath water” — SO FUNNY. Ira Glass is awesome. And it has Mates of State. A classic TAL episode indeed.

Also good are the TAL episodes that focus on Iraq, and tell of the plight of Americans serving overseas. Hearing this makes us white people nod our heads in sympathy, and feel as though we understand what it is like to live in the Middle East. Normally we listen while walking our dogs or driving in our Priuses.

The big theme of this site is basically white people have no soul. All they care about is how they appear to others, not about truly enjoying their life. All that matters is if their friends think they have a great life and wish their life was like the first.

This website is hilarious, but it seems to primarily focus only on liberal white people. Not that I lean one way or the other, but I know a LOT of conservative white people in the South who would hardly like with anything on this list.

With that said, this site very aptly describes most of the white people I know who consider themselves indie, alternative, hippie, liberal, etc. Keep up the fun!

I enjoy this post. I love This American Life, or anything featuring Sir Ira Glass and Dame David Sedaris! As a gay, who must be even whiter since the fact of that bestows me with gay friends, I am a big fan. The thing about this blog that amuses me most though is how personal, and even visceral, people take these posts. They’re are not meant to be castigatations of all you love and hold dear. These posts poke fun at the too-serious indy/hipster kid who goes through the motions of being a postmodern, socially conscious intellectual while lacking any introspection or genuine interest for what she/he is doing as it is all part of some facade.

Quoting: “To make himself feel better he likes being socially aware of things. However he spends most of his time indulging in the arts and going out for dinner so he has little time to devote to this. ”

Let’s see… the vast majority of dollars for public radio comes from people in the form of voluntary contributions. Yes, play the “wasting tax dollars” nonsense especially when you have no clue as to reality of the funding structure of public radio and most public radio stations around the country. Grants are also a huge source of income for stations and programs. Corporate underwriting is up there (which is why NPR needed to lay off a number of employees and cancel 2 shows recently — not because of a lack of tax dollars, folks, but because of corporate underwriting, aka bland 15-second commercial-like announcements of financial support from some company or what have you.

Also, visit your average public radio station. These places operate on the slimmest budgets. Sure, some of the larger major-market stations are pretty sweet, but they also have a very large listener and donor base and sizable amounts of money from those corporate underwriters.

And, yeah, that dums**t stuff regarding the size of public radio’s audience. 2 of the top 4 most-listened radio shows in the country are Morning Edition and All Things Considered. The other 2 shows are Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. They are share more than 13 million listeners.

Why are most NPR newscasts anti-American (not to mention boring as hell?) NPR reporters will ignore good stories in their own backyard but if some farmer in Zambia loses a chicken it’s a 20-minute long piece about the injustices of Western colonialism

People who listen to NPR never say, “I heard this on the RADIO.” They say, ‘I heard this on NPR.” This distinguishes them from the rest of us Neanderthals who listen to commercial radio. Ohhhhh the posturing!

I was the NPR Dork Dad for the teenagers. When they all were in college we had dinner together. Each of the 3 kids brought up a story they had heard on NPR. An epiphany – everyone suddenly realized I had won.

NPR is the empitome of whiteness. They get to feel wordly without actually having to travel. (see yoga, sushi, wine, among a few) They can revel in their white guilt, as they really dont have any legitimate concerns in their life. NPR is a natural match for elitist urban yuppies, as it feeds directly to their guilt sticken, quasi-sophistcated, pseudo-intellectual soul.

The thing I hate most of all on NPR is the overly-mannered speech pattern of Ira Glass. Those way-too-long pauses in between sentences make me feel like my head is going to explode. I keep looking at the radio thinking I lost the signal or my radio just went dead or something.

Holy Crap Billy Dawn the Aliens are comming ….. Lesbian Redneck Hookers abducted by aliens and forced into Weight loss on the next Town talk.

Public Radio is for paranoid people…. Just look at what happend when that Orson Fella released War of the Worlds… Thats right Lots of kids was the result… Eveyone had to get some before the aliens Got um.

Don’t worry, sister. You’re not alone. I’m a black woman who loves pretty much the majority of the things on this blog. You don’t need to redeem yourself, just be you and screw what everyone else thinks.

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Nah, NPR’s pretty awesome actually. I guess some people listen to it for pretentious reasons…but if you actually listen to it, it’s entertaining. I like the way they present the news (not me being pretentious!) And Prairie Home Companion’s good times. Talk of the Nation’s basically just a talk show like Oprah that you can’t see. And for Morning Edition, they don’t spend too much time on each news point, so it’s like easy, mindless, entertaining listening, which is a good thing and why I listen to it.

But I do have to admit, there are a few shows that are kind of boring and redundant. And typically white, for white people who so desperately want to be a unique intellectuals.
But that’s only for some shows, their more popular shows are popular because they’re good.

I am a Hispanic woman who loves a majority of the things on this blog. And yet I can appreciate making fun of those very same things. I am a vegetarian, i ride a bike, used to listen to NPR….but I like they way this blog is presented. So what if i am lumped in with the yuppies….I pretty much am one, this is almost a class thing rather then a white thing I think anyways.

I like the Irony of this website…and I notice that Irony is also on this list…Damnit!

Kelsey – I appriciate your candor and I agree to some degree. Really honest, good post.

I like “car talk” because it is basically a comedy show that happens to involve cars.

However, the over-annunciated news and political correctness (remember: its not toilet paper…its BATHROOM tissue) really grind on me quite a bit. And government funding…….is there any difference between NPR and Russia state radio???? Too many polititcians in control of free speech.

You wonder why people listen to NPR…Have you listened to commercial radio lately? Honestly- if it’s between a thousand repeats of the same top 40 songs interlaced with a billion commercials and DJ Dopey rambling on about mind-numbing crud, or novel bits of news presented in an entertaining fashion- which do you prefer to listen to on the way to work?

Thank you for your comment. It was generous and you are kind–and wise.

I am enjoying the comments on this website as much as I enjoy the posts. After reading several posts and seeing myself in nearly all of them, I laughed out loud so many times and decided to submit a comment.

You are right–we just have to be ourselves and enjoy the posts.

By the way I am vacationing in Seattle and I just left a sandwich place–a very very good sandwich place that served micro-brews. We had some damn good humus last night for dinner and we are going to a ‘breakfast place’ tomorrow with my uncle. If you were in town, I’d invite you! We already have lots in common!

The best thing about this list is that whoever you are, you can relate to making many of these observations about other white people. But then you read a post and you think, “Wait, I love this thing, why are they making fun of it?” and then you laugh at yourself and “white people.” Much better than just laughing at someone else.
P.S. NPR rocks!

It’s not like those are the only two options. There’s MP3 players, Satellite radio, Pandora, Last.fm… Who the hell listens to the regular radio anymore? NPR is like a negative vortex of boring. It’s like a black hole for fun and positivity. It’s depressing and dull on an epic scale.

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Naw, you got it all wrong. I like MPR because I’m trapped in the car for 3 hours a day minimum and the commercial stuff gets nauseating with an obscene commercial to (usually bad) music ratio. Also it’s good to keep up with liberal elite thinking on the Commie Channel. And it’s hilarious when they become so deluded as to mention that they are the source for “fair and balanced” news after being Obama apologists for the same crap that they pilloried GW for. Taken in the proper perspective, the liberal elite naivete is hilarious. The only scary part is that they actually believe their own BS, and some listeners do too.

I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????

I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money supporting National Public Radio.

Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)

Ok, this is a damn funny blog, but this one officially solidifies the fact that the majority of this list applies to suburban white Liberals. I would advise the wayward traveler not to use these bits of “getting in good with white people” advice in, oh say a bar in Lubbock, Texas…LoL! Those boys won’t give a rat’s ass about Kitchen Aid, Hippie CoOp foods, Priuses (Prii?), fleece outerwear or NPR. I dunno about the outback Aussies, but I would hope the same holds true there.

I heard that some car dealers will set a station preset in cars for sale to NPR in case a potential customer happens to be an affluent white person. Not a bad strategy to make one feel at home when considering a major purchase.

I have been checking this spot out for the last few evenings and laughing my butt off. You hit the nail on the head “Redneck”. It would be funny to most of my friends here in metro-SLC Utah, but my friends and family back in rural Georgia….. few of them would get it.

Very funny stuff. I love it!

And, by the way, listening to “Weekend Edition” while surfing the web on a Sunday afternoon.

NPR is for white people on the left, Clearchannel is for white people on the right, WWRC (shortwave) is for white people on the far right, and RHC (Radio havana Cuba) for white people on the far left. Does it make sense now? What made XM a political-free zone, moderate, centrist, neutral or trying not to be controversial? It’s a privately-ran corporate business firm. TV cable companies are dropping religious channels in recent years: TBN, CBN, EWTN, etc. since the friggin’ liberal media & conservative church groups can’t get along in the world of business: politics & religion don’t mix. +

The BBC, CBC, DW-Germany, RHC, etc. are government-funded or operated entities, unlike NPR or any American media company. Radio Luxembourg, Radio Moscow and ORF-France are more renowned for global news radio, talk shows and a whole different perspective than phony NPR. +

I love “brown pride” radio: W radio from Mexico City via a Mexicali transmitter blasting Mexican government propaganda to the “La Raza Cosmica” in Southern Cal. where Aztlan shall rise again with the ancient capital-turned world-class city in either L.A. or San Diego. LOL! +

(from Michael, a Californian) I hate to admit this, we have a whole lot of NY Times readers who live in Palm Springs via Westside L.A. The National Review readers are Midwestern or former O.C. white guys into golf courses, driving in RVs and time in a beach down in Ensenada. The other kind of white people who vote Republican in Palm Desert have a beef with the WASPs who vote Democrat in Palm Springs. +

Whatever happened to “to each their own”? Could somebody please tell me what’s wrong with enjoying free entertainment that allows you the pretense of superiority? I honestly find this man’s sense of humor quite directly in line with mine. Not to mention, his reason for disliking TV has little to do with being a better person than everyone else, and more to do with the fact that he’d rather fill his life with real people and experiences.

I admire that.

I wish I had such a compulsion, yet here I sit, attempting to interact with a primarily static environment. Videos that others have made, songs they’ve recorded, blog posts – discussions and opinions that are complete in and of themselves, without any input from the likes of me.

Also, did anyone listen beyond the gay guy, to the girl with the Thanksgiving obsession? She hit the nail on the head – we’re screwing things up simply by being here, so why bicker about who’s doing things wronger?

Actually, it’s not suburban white liberals, it’s urban white liberals. Hipsters, indies, yuppies, young professionals, academics, neo-faux-hippies, et al. They often leak out into the suburbs, once they want to buy their first home and host dinner parties, but they’re still of white-urban ilk.

NPR is a publicly funded platform for fruitcakes to share just how stupid they are with a lot more people. The liberals think stealing the food off my kids plates to fund this crap is a better use of the money.

So you can’t feed your children because the evil liberals are making you pay for public radio, but you can afford an internet connection? Really? Unless you’re at a library, in which case you’re spending money getting there.

I just found the website, and started going through the list – New Balance shoes, check. Just got a new pair and have two old ones in the closet. Whole Foods, having gay friends, expensive sandwiches – check, check, check! I am indeed white. I immediately started looking for NPR. I knew it had to be here, it’s got to be the whitest thing in our culture – sure enough! There it is, public radio. I listen to This American Life and Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me and even Click and Clack.

I’m not interested in indie music or ugly sweater parties, though.

I think this site is hilarious. One thing that should be added if it isn’t there is Jimmy Buffet. In my young adult years my friends and I would get parrot and lobster hats and go see him every summer. A black co-worker had no idea who he was – I was shocked.

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You DO realize that 85% of public broadcasting’s revenue is not paid for through taxes, but through direct donations from the public. And that the $400M annually spent by the federal government on public broadcasting amounts to 0.01% of the Federal budget.

Now, I’ll make a generous assumption and, despite your comments above, assume you’re a high income earner, Greg. Lets say you make $150K/year. Let’s say your effective tax rate is 17%. Not unreasonable, although if you have kids and own a house, it’s probably lower than this. Anyway, at 17% effective tax rate, that means that 0.01% of Federal spending for the CPB costs you $255 annually.

$255! HOLY CRAP!

I can see why you can’t feed your kids. I mean, it probably came down to feeding the kids or getting that new iPhone. I’d probably let the kids go hungry for a couple weeks too, what with the rise of childhood obesity. Besides, the sweet apps on your new phone can distract them from the hunger pains.

Of course, if you’re at the low end of the income scale–say $20K/year income the CPB costs you maybe $10. Of course, every dollar matters if you’re struggling below the poverty line. Sesame Street for your kids may seem like a luxury, if you can even find a working TV at Goodwill. But, then again, you qualify for Welfare, food stamps and/or Medicaid, so my guess is you come out ahead in the end.

This American Life, Car Talk, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, Live at the Metropolitan Opera, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Fresh Air all need your support this week! LOL! It’s pledge week on my local NPR station, and I feel guilty for saying this, but how much I pledge is determined by what gift I can receive in return. I watch Public Television as well. I don’t know what I would do w/o Frontline, Nature, and of course, Charlie Rose. Point being, black people like this stuff too. I think I will make a mirror site saying just that. We’re not aliens…well except Andre 3000.

I think a lot of you have problems understanding these are just broad funny stereotypes that apply to the current (young 20-30’s) white population of the USA. OF COURSE black people, and Asian, and Latino people do some of these things. YOU DO NOT NEED TO SAY YOU ARE BLACK AND YOU DO THIS TOO (no one cares! these are just funny WHITE stereotypes). and Of course all white people don’t do all these things. These are just FUNNY STEREOTYPES that are oddly and recently very prevalent in American White culture. I am very guilty (and not guilty) of a lot of these. I think it is really funny. I live in Japan, have an Asian girlfriend, like mos def, used to make movies, wanted to be a writer, like to camp, etc, etc. No I don’t do yoga and don’t really like tea… and I am NOT going to be all defensive and complain that this list is stupid and I guess I am not white cause I don’t drink wine. Just enjoy this for what it is. BROAD STEREOTYPES. one more thing. Stop being so defensive. You don’t need to post on every thing that you DON’T do, “I don’t do …..” whatever. good for you.

here is an idea for the next item. Stuff white people like: not having a sense of humor or being remotely opened minded.

Oh, I’m gay, did I mention that? (plus female {despite the Julie Andrews reference}, fat, and old) so do you think I could increase the cred of a black friend, were I to have a real one?

Or can I only increase the cred of those whiter than myself?

I suspect that being friends with a fat old ugly lesbian does nothing for anyone’s cred. Heterosexual pseudoguilt, even in white folk, is not yet that powerful.

Then again, I’m totally employable (if not marriage material) having been raised among the right kind of white people, and liking many of the right things: public radio, camping, farmer’s markets, picking my own fruit, Banksy, where the wild things are, sea salt (in the kitchen and the bath), black music black people don’t listen to anymore, have bangs, bumber stickers, having gay friends, hating corporations, threatening to move to canada, recycling, expensive sandwiches, knowing what’s best for poor people, Japan (like, are you psychic?), dogs, irony, vintage, David Sedaris, microbrewries, yoga, President Obama, organic food, and diversity (on the committee at work). I am about to explore all the other options of things white people like. Thank you for showing me my culture. I think I’ll bring this website to the attention of the diversity committee. Now that should increase my cred.

[…] not that I don’t like This American Life. I do, really, very much, despite the well-publicized opinions of The O.C.’s Summer on the matter. It’s just that in real life I’d rather hang out with the Magliozzis. […]

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I listen to NPR so much that I know the different segments and can recognize the voices of the many different radio hosts.
My favorite segments are The Diane Rehm Show and Wait wait dont tell me… funny name for a show right.

I really do love public radio. It’s pretty much all I listen to in the car. But I’ve noticed that with most white people if you admit to ever watching ‘biased’ news, like CNN or FOX News, you might as well crawl in a hole and die. Even though I am perfectly capable of sifting through the BS myself and sometimes just want to catch up on world news quickly, admitting to watching news on television is pretty much social death, lol.

[…] the “national” in NPR refers to the United States and has been recognized as one of the many things white people like, I find this quite admirable. While I don’t pretend to imagine there aren’t biases at […]

I can easily classify myself as being non-caucasian… and at the same time I extremely enjoy “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me.” Go figure! Be a little more open-minded and learn that NPR and the programs they run are to expand people’s knowledge, whatever the color of their skin may be. However, I wouldn’t expect much from someone who can’t even capitalize pronouns.

“NPR (which is equivalent to listening to cardboard)”
SPOT ON!!!! perfect description, the countless hours of my youth I suffered riding in vehicles with NPR on the radio. I can still hear that pretentious, grating monotone BLAH BLAH BLAH ringing in my head. I can still vividly recall the feeling of wanting to scream my lungs out and explode out of my skin over the punishing boredom, ugh.

I am a big fan of public radio (and yes I’m also white). I drive a lot, to work and travelling around the country, so spend a lot of time listening to the car radio.
I find that most commercial radio is the same ol’ you can hear anytime, the same Top 30 or 40 pop/country watered down product posing as music, or if you have a “Classic Rock” station there’s only a few bands you will ever hear (Fleetwood Mac, Clapton, Boston…) and then they play the same 1 or 2 songs over and over, as if the bands on this limited list didn’t have other songs than the ones that have been played to death.

A lot of this stations get their programming from Clear Channel. Don’t get me started, I’ll tell you what I think of Ticketmaster too.

Public radio can be boring at times, and some of the programs, like This American Life and Garrisson Keiller’s A Prairie Home Companion (2 of my favorites) are admittedly an acquired taste, and not for everyone. Hey, just like Metallica.

[…] After listening to enough episodes, you learn to anticipate the story turns and reveals, sometimes before the segment has barely started. It’s the same familiar structure ever time: when you hear “so the family did what anyone faced with their situation would: they ran,” you know you’re in for a discussion of the actual harm in growing marijuana; when a story begins with raucous laughter, it will inevitably end in someone’s death. Searching for the perfect bahn mi sandwich. Questioning the merits of Oprah’s Book Club selections. Abortion. It should come as no surprise that the show has carved a special place for itself in the lives of four-eyed people and elbow patch enthusiasts, many of whom are white, liberal, and guilty-feeling. […]

I have heard some really good interviews on NPR…I remember one of that guy who wrote “The Color of Water,” and also one of this Holocaust scholar Mark Klempner, and Jimmy Carter interviewed by Terri Gross. You’ll never hear these kind of interviews on commercial radio….and on television you won’t find anything of that quality except for Charlie Rose. I don’t like NPR’s insipid side, but at other times it has a lot of depth. As far as its appeal to white people, it appeals to white liberals. As other commenters have pointed out, white rightists will listen to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, etc. ps The correct pronunciation IS NewfoundLAND. I know, I visited there.

White people, well all people, also enjoy http://www.NakedHipster.com. Mainly because the girls are hot and don’t have clothes on. Usually those two things go well together. You know, the hotness and the nakedness.
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My progressive asian roomate loves NPR, recycles, does not flush until she goes to the bathroom 20 times because it saves water, and looks down on me because I like preservatives in my food and love my cable tv.

SHe’s an automatic white person…the right kind of white hipster white person even though she is 100% Chinese.

I on the other hand am half filipino/half the wrong kind of white person. So even though I am part white. I am the wrong kind of white.

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